Interpreting the plan of a medieval Hindu capital, Vijayanagara

Fritz, John M.; Michell, George

doi:10.1080/00438243.1987.9980027

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“…Again, this is a practice maintained in modern Anuradhapura, where the major monasteries of Anuradhapura, as well as smaller local temples are sustained through donations, offerings and free labour from surrounding villages (Figure 14). Bronson (1978) developed the work of Coe (1957;1961) to incorporate Anuradhapura and Prambanan (Indonesia) within the same category as Angkor (Khmer) and Tikal (Maya); however, only further data collection and analysis will allow us to develop comparative models with the so-called Tropical Forest Civilisations (Coe 1961;Bronson 1978), as well as contemporary South Asian Early Historic models (Erdosy 1988;Kenoyer 1997) and later medieval examples (Fritz 1986;Fritz & Michell 1987;Sinopoli & Morrison 1995;Verghese 2004).…”

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The state of theocracy: defining an early medieval hinterland in Sri Lanka

Coningham¹,

Gunawardhana

Manuel³

et al. 2007

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The ancient Sri Lankan city of Anuradhapura is currently the subject of one of the world's largest and most intensive archaeological research projects. Having traced its growth from an Iron Age village to a medieval city, the research team now moves to the task of modelling the surrounding landscape. Three seasons of fieldwork have located numerous sites of which the most prominent in the urban period are monasteries. Here is a clue about how the early urban hinterland was managed which has implications well beyond Sri Lanka.

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The state of theocracy: defining an early medieval hinterland in Sri Lanka

Coningham¹,

Gunawardhana

Manuel³

et al. 2007

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“…The genus has a known distribution area in the eastern Mediterranean, tropical Africa and central Asia ( Murphy 2007 ). On an archaeological mission to the south of India in 2006 ( Bosselaers and Valcke 2009 ), the author collected both sexes of a new species of Heser among the ruins of Hampi, the former capital of the Vijayanagar empire ( Filliozat 2004 , Fritz and Michell 2001 , Verghese 2002 ). The new species expands the range of the genus to southern India ( Fig.…”

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A new species of Heser (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) from the south of India

Bosselaers¹

2010

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“…Written towards the end of the 16 th century, under the long reign of the Mughal emperor Akbar (1556-1605), urban planning and temple architecture and iconography; see e.g. Fritz and Michell 1987;Pollock 1993: 267-269. In Vijayanagara, one of the el ements which testify to the persistence of the same dynamics characterizing the 'Ayodhyā archetype' is the largely attested phenomenon of land donations to temples by members of Vijayanagara's court or by other state institutions; see Milanetti 2012a: 406-419.…”

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Between Enduring Urban Models and Shifting Cultural Trajectories: Unravelling Narratives on Ayodhyā and Bengaluru

Milanetti

2015

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Between Enduring Urban Models and Shifting Cultural Trajectories:Unravelling Narratives on Ayodhyā and Bengaluru SUMMARY: Indian cities seem particularly prone to investigation through narrative both for the abundance of material about the origins and the develop ment of urban centres from ancient to medieval times-which often contrasts with the relative scarceness of purely 'historical' data-and for the ten dency to elaborate modern and contemporary "a posteriori narrative-myths" (Aravot 1995) through popular media such as cinema and television. Using methodological tools provided by research on narratives and analysing two case studies with reference to the cities of Ayodhyā and Bengaluru, the present paper investigates the processes and the dynamics by which nar rations on cities are made to evolve. It builds on the conceptual frame provided by recent narratological scholarship, with a specific reference to the "increasing recognition of the ubiquity of narrative within any culture, in discursive practices as diverse as theo logy, historiography, economics, legal practice, political speech-making, everyday conversation and philo sophy" (Rigney 1992: 263-264, italics in the original). Focusing on the 'constructive' aspect of narrative, seen as a discourse that intrinsically involves the active (and determinant) participation of the narrator, it argues that this perspective of analysis allows the researcher to interpret urban narratives eminently in political terms, or within relations of power-which also legitimizes the use of narrative ma terials for historical research. In broader terms, it contends that narration can give back structured information about the values and the practices which characterize a given society, and which are selectively communicated by the narrator(s); and that, in turn, this quality of 'restoring' structured information may shed more light on the inherent nature of narration itself and lead to further theorization both on its creative dynamics and its created artefacts. Practice of exploration of narration in a context of open communication with other disciplines may undoubtedly facilitate this process.

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Interpreting the plan of a medieval Hindu capital, Vijayanagara

Cited by 21 publications

References 3 publications

The state of theocracy: defining an early medieval hinterland in Sri Lanka

The state of theocracy: defining an early medieval hinterland in Sri Lanka

A new species of Heser (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) from the south of India

Between Enduring Urban Models and Shifting Cultural Trajectories: Unravelling Narratives on Ayodhyā and Bengaluru

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